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- A carefully crafted balance of strategy and luck
- Countless playtests that helped create a perfectly balanced gameplay
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- Asymmetrical characters that provide seven unique paths to victory
- Easy-to-learn gameplay that’s friendly to younger players and those new to the hobby
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- Plays fast, with games lasting just over an hour
- Endless variety, with randomized events each turn that require you to change tactics on-the-fly
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- Victory points are also currency, so winning requires knowing when and how much to invest
- A customizable experience - make the game less luck-dependent or less complex using built-in variants
- It’s a labour of love created by board game fans, for board game fans like you
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Every copy of Cauldron comes with the following components:
- 44 Field tiles (2.5 mm thick)
- 132 Ingredient tokens (2.5 mm thick)
- 202 cards (57 Potions, 87 Spells, 46 Omens, 12 Cellars) (300 gsm)
- 7 Character cards and 7 Character Tokens
- 3 Reference Cards
- A Magik track
- Rulebook
- 5 six-sided dice
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Geek Dad writer, Rob Huddleston. (https://geekdad.com/2015/04/kickstarter-alert-cauldron/)
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Boardgaming.com (http://boardgaming.com/news/kickstarter-game-preview-cauldron)
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Father Geek (http://fathergeek.com/cauldron_prepub/)
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iSlaytheDragon (http://islaythedragon.com/featured/toil-and-trouble-a-preview-of-cauldron/)
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Club Fantasci (http://www.clubfantasci.com/cauldron-by-altema-games-review-by-david-lowry/)
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BoardGameQuest (http://www.boardgamequest.com/cauldron-preview/)